Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-07
VII THE SEVEN ARE TO BE HANGED.

ILLINOIS 10 save the Cnlcago daymarket
murderers from the gallows. Though the
case has been carefully and fairly tried
before competent Court and jury in
telligent and in every way unexceptiona-
bic, certain influences are at work retying
the prisoners, and declaring them TO be
innocent-the victims of Judicial haste
and condemned upon testimony insufficient
and unworthy. A surprising number of
influential people who abhor Anarchism
and execute murderes, signed me-
MORALS to the Governor praying him to
save the condemned from hanging.
All this was very surprising. We can only
charitably assume that these people are
opposed to capital punishment, and felt
justified therefore in employing any ex-
cuse, such as named, to prevent the exeeu-
ton.
Our dispatches this morning disclose
how i'll placed has been all sympathy for
the condemned Yesterday in the cell of
one Of the prisoners, Lingg, was discov-
cred batch Of dynamite bombs, with
which unquestionably, it was the intention
to blow up the Chicago Jail and kill or
mangle all its occupants. While suing for
pardon, and beseeching sympathy for the
condemned, the friends of these wretched
assassins have been plotting new murder.
There was danger of the Nervousness
of the ofiense Of the murderers being lost
sight Of. They did not offend, as certain
petitioners put it, against capital and
property possessions, but against the safe
guards of human life and rights. They
murdered the servants of the people while
discharging the lawful functions of peace
officers. They killed these men because
they were upholding the laws, command
ing order, conserving the family relation,
defending the right TO own property and
upholding the principles of democracy, all
of which Anarchism condemns and seeks
to break down, and for which end it justi-
fes assassination, arson and pillage
They nave had no true conception of
liberty, of the personal rights of human
beings, the justice and Righteousness of
personal freedom that wrung Magma Charta
from John and confronted Charles with
the bill of rights. They have not the
capacity to be good citizens nor the men,
tality that would attach them to free in
situations. Being assassins, they are fit
only for the gallows.
Why are the Haymarket assassins to be
hanged?
In April, 1886, strikes of great magni-
tude prevailed in the West The An
archists seized upon these occasions to in
fuence working men, and to appeal to
them to join in a crusade against life and
property. Early in May, at public gather
ing in Chicago, Spies, a leadea of An
archists, brutal, cold and calculating, ha-
rangued a multitude, urging it to march
against certain factories and level them
to the ground. The mob, in part, obeyed,
and the assault began, when the police ap-
peared. The rioters assaulted them with
stones, sticks, bars Of iron, pistols and
briek-bats; the police fired, dispersed the
mob and killed three Of the rioters and
took several prisoners.
The following day, May 4th, the An
archist papers of Chicago cried aloud fol
vengeance, declaring the men had been
killed by capitalistic hirelings. The same
day mysterious circular was scattered
upon the streets, giving secret signal tc
Anarchists to gather. demanding blood and
life, and threatening the city with the
torch and its people with the knife. About
the same hour posters were put up for a
mass-meeting at the Haymarket, Randolph
street, at 10 o'clock at night, to take steps
to ayenge the fallen rioters 1t was clearly
proved subsequently that the circular and
posters emanated from Anarchist sections
and not from the workingmen or the
strikers. The hour for the meeting hay
ing arrived, Spies, Fielden and Parsons
addressed it. They urged the people to
burn and kill, and to march upon the
houses of Wabash and Michigan avenues
and destroy them utterly. One of the
speakers shouted over and over again
We address YOU as Socialists and rebels
to the law and its edicts % In front and
back of the speakers were massed the pro-
nounced Anarchists, who shouted and ges-
ticuiated wildly, and cried out to the peo-
pie to burn and kill Beyond this crowd
of few hundred, were spectators, moved
by curiosity, and some working men, in
hamed and misled by the appeals of the
Anarchists. While Fielden was still
shouting for blood, three platoons of police,
two of fifty each and one Of eighty men,
marched up, crossing very near to the
wagon which served us rostrum. The
Captain in charge cried out, " In the name
of the State Of Illinois, l command this
crowd to disperse.' He had scarcely
uttered the last word when from behind
the wagon there was thrown bomb with
burning fuse. 1t fell between the front
and the middle platoon of officers and ex-
ploded just as it struck the ground, and
twenty-nine human beings fell to the
earth killed or frightfully wounded Then
terror ruled the hour, shots from the crowd
were fired at the police; the police, in turn,
opened fire, as any men possessed of an
ordinary sense of the right of self-defense
would have done, and Me cowardly An
archists turned and fled.
The result of the explosion of the bomb
was the instant death of officer Degan, the
wounding of six others who died some time
after, the mangling of eleven Others so as
disable them for their lives. and the
wounding more or less seriously of sixty
others. The bomb it was proved was
round, the most explosive kind, was made
of two semi-globes of iron, held together
by bolt and nut, fitted with Illuminating
cap and exploded By projecting fuse
From the body of officer Murphy, who had
fifteen sbaiI -,rnrs,Is o,c,--I.